Nas samples Toto

Hip-hop has a long tradition of recycling obscure album tracks and B-sides into exciting new music, but crate digging was the last thing on the mind of producer L.E.S. when he replayed the ubiquitous pop rock classic Africa, by Toto, for Nas’s Nastradamus LP.

Hardly one of the native New Yorker’s finer moments, New World is a surreal luddite Y2K paranoia fantasy that reveals that the rapper has both a terrible diet and difficulty distinguishing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from real life: “Say goodbye to the toasters and Pop-Tarts / Yo, it's real / Swallow a little pill, there's a four-course meal”.